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are RNs who are "prepared, through advanced education and clinical training, to provide preventive and acute health-care services"...

and nurses need to be and has generated capacity and energy within that body of nursing to reach that vision" (Ralko 6). A princip...

images represent some aspect of nursing? Examination of this question shows that two of these images are particularly helpful in d...

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...

records and kept him and his family informed about his progress to date and what he could expect along the path to recovery. Nurs...

Kanters position that the situational aspects of a working environment have the ability to influence worker attitudes and behavior...

Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...

long after all signs of consciousness have ceased. Is this "good"? Is this beneficent? The news tells us of parents confronting me...

But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...

study also examined the availability of information resources available to the RN respondents (both at work and at home). Their fi...

is the development of Mishels Uncertainty in Illness Scale (MUIS), which is comprised of twenty-eight item measure that utilizes a...

the associates course of study to address the very things that can make the greatest difference in patient outcomes and satisfacti...

Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...

In four pages this research paper examines nursing's metaparadigm in a consideration of concepts including nursing, health, enviro...

and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...

and nursing literature abounds with how such theories influence and guide nursing practice in all of its varied aspects. For exa...

operating room to recovery, the tracking of patient information becomes an imperative part of this process (Beyea, Hicks and Becke...

The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...

and Robinson, 2003). Another element complicating the problem is the fact that in the early 1990s, many hospitals restructured a...

and retention" (Andersen, 2002, p. 603). This then should be the first priority: to design a study that will accrue and retain ...

This paper is made up of three sections, with each section pertaining to a significant hospital administration issue. These topics...

This research paper pertains to nursing competencies and the difference between associate degree-trained nurses and those with a b...

today will reach retirement age within 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). At the same time, fewer people are entering nursing, as ...

nurses which makes job searching easier. Registered nurses are in great demand and it is thought that there will be a significa...

best way to appease both the law and the public; its dynamic decision about whether to include doctor-assisted suicide and volunta...

policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...

are getting calls from every part of the country every day. I am hearing from nurses that the working conditions are intolerable a...

use this possibility as an excuse to not provide other people, people who are obviously suffering tremendously and would inevitabl...

It seems that within the context of the work, there is little compassion shown for the protagonist with the exception of one oncol...

(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...